Some immigration advocates say the immigration policy measures the Trump administration wants to implement in exchange for legislation that would protect young undocumented immigrants are unacceptable.

“What this is saying is...let’s protect immigrant youth so that so that we can hurt the rest of the immigrant community,” said Cristina Jimenez, the executive director and co-founder of United We Dream, the largest youth-led immigrants group in the country.

Besides building a southern border wall, the administration wants to tighten standards for asylum seekers, hire 10,000 more immigration agents, move away from the family-based immigration system and end visa overstays.

Last month, President Trump announced he was ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, known as DACA, which protected young immigrants who don’t have legal status from deportation and gave them temporary two-year work permits. The Obama administration implemented the policy using its executive authority. President Trump gave Congress six months to replace the program with legislation.

Nearly 33,000 DACA recipients live in New York State.

"Ninety percent of the country believes that we should find a legislative solution for Dreamers," said Steve Choi, the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition. "For the administration then to take that and load that in with every single thing, every single anti-immigrant piece of proposal that they want to put in there, I mean, they think they’re gonna get a nightmare Christmas gift a couple of months early."

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who previously said they had an agreement with the President to protect the Dreamers, said in a statement that the White House list of demands "goes so far beyond what is reasonable."

With the Associated Press.